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Soccer-Miners of Cobresal win first Chilean league title

SANTIAGO, April 26 (Reuters) - A late penalty gave Cobresal a 3-2 win over Barnechea on Sunday and lifted them to a first ever Chilean league title.

Matias Donoso scored from the spot after 83 minutes to guarantee the club from a small northern mining town a maiden Clausura title with a week of the season remaining.

The win took Cobresal to 33 points after 16 games, four clear of second-placed Universidad Catolica. Barnechea sit bottom of the 18 team league and were already relegated.

Cobresal were formed in 1979 in El Salvador, a town of around 8,000 people in a copper mining region of the Atacama desert.